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IT outsourcing

• April 29, 2014 29 Apr'14

  Golder Associates plans global WAN

  Engineering company Golder Associates is rolling out a wide area network (WAN) across its 180 global sites to optimise connectivity for its diverse and often remote locations

• April 28, 2014 28 Apr'14

  Fiat and Chrysler to integrate separate IT systems

  Car manufacturing group Fiat and Chrysler have contracted IBM to integrate their separate IT infrastructures into a single global operation, following the companies coming together after Chrysler applied for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

• April 23, 2014 23 Apr'14

  Six Degrees datacentre suffers outage for more than 12 hours

  Customers using Six Degrees’s datacentre and hosting services faced downtime as the hosting and managed services provider suffered an outage for over 12 hours

• April 17, 2014 17 Apr'14

  Centerprise ICT 2015 Treasury contract guarantee of SME commitment

  HM Treasury has handed a four year media and wireless contract understood to be worth around £2.5m to Hampshire-based services provider Centerprise, under the auspices of its ICT 2015 contracts

• April 04, 2014 04 Apr'14

  Cabinet Office vetoed Home Office plans for 'critical' e-Borders replacement

  Home Office plans for IT systems to replace ageing border security systems that contain “critical vulnerabilities” were vetoed by the Cabinet Office

• April 03, 2014 03 Apr'14

  Competition from FinTech startups keeps big suppliers on their toes

  Big suppliers in the financial technology space are becoming more agile because of the competition from startup technology companies

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  TechUK criticises OFT's reporting of IT cartel accusations

  TechUK criticises a report from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) alleging anti-competitive behaviour and collusion between public sector IT suppliers

• March 20, 2014 20 Mar'14

  Application support and maintenance costs increase 29%

  The cost of supporting and maintaining applications is increasing every year for Global 2000 companies in the US and UK, according to a study of 300 CIOs

• March 12, 2014 12 Mar'14

  Government finally ends e-Borders programme

  The government has formally ended the troubled e-Borders programme, with its intended functions merged into a new project

• February 28, 2014 28 Feb'14

  IT sector sees sharper rise in insolvencies than overall economy

  Information and communications companies in the UK are suffering a rising number of insolvencies

• February 28, 2014 28 Feb'14

  Liverpool council to end BT IT joint venture

  Liverpool City Council is to cancel a £70m-a-year IT joint venture deal with BT and bring services back in-house

• February 24, 2014 24 Feb'14

  Atos to distance itself from controversial DWP contract

  Atos is trying to exit its disability testing contract with the Department for Work and Pensions early as the controversial contract enters its final 18 months

• February 20, 2014 20 Feb'14

  Diageo selects TCS for global services

  Drinks maker Diageo has chosen Indian IT services firm TCS to support its IT infrastructure transformation

• February 20, 2014 20 Feb'14

  Gloucestershire County Council replaces Capita with Steria to transform IT delivery

  Gloucestershire County Council has signed a five-year ICT managed service deal with Steria to support a major change to IT delivery

• February 18, 2014 18 Feb'14

  Indian suppliers face recruitment challenges as visa rejections increase

  US clampdowns on Indian IT firms bringing staff to its shores is forcing Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to increase local hires

• February 14, 2014 14 Feb'14

  BBC starts search for suppliers to replace £2bn Atos outsourcing deal

  The BBC is moving away from its single-supplier outsourcing deal to a multi-sourced 'tower' approach for its technology services

• February 11, 2014 11 Feb'14

  Why IT outsourcing is increasingly blamed for IT failures at banks

  Are the IT problems at UK banks caused by outsourcing or the use of decades-old mainframe technology – or is it a combination of the two?

• February 05, 2014 05 Feb'14

  The BBC DMI project - what went wrong?

  The BBC and its former CTO have engaged in tit-for-tat allegations over its failed £100m digital media project. But who was right?

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  BBC CTO John Linwood defends role in failed £100m digital project

  Former BBC CTO John Linwood defends his role in the failed £100m DMI project, citing changing business requirements as a key factor

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  BBC failed to get "sufficient grip” over failed DMI project, says NAO

  The National Audit Office has slammed the BBC over its failed Digital Media Initiative (DMI), project saying the broadcaster was “too optimistic” and the BBC executive “did not have sufficient grip of the programme"

• January 24, 2014 24 Jan'14

  DWP refuses to release value for money reports on Universal Credit IT suppliers

  The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) refuses to publish details about Universal Credit IT suppliers' performance

• January 16, 2014 16 Jan'14

  HCL and CSC partner to modernise applications

  Indian IT services firm HCL and US competitor CSC are working together to win business in the application modernisation and cloud migration segments of the application outsourcing sector

• January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14

  The IT risks facing Universal Credit

  Despite Iain Duncan Smith's robust defence of his flagship welfare reform policy, Universal Credit, evidence to the contrary continues to mount

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  Post Office seeks contractors for network and back-office work

  The Post Office is looking for IT services firms to provide back-office IT applications and networking technologies in contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds

• January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14

  DWP already struggling to recruit digital skills for Universal Credit IT development

  DWP is already struggling to recruit IT staff with the digital skills it needs – not just for Universal Credit but also other IT projects

• January 08, 2014 08 Jan'14

  Universal Credit faces IT skills shortage risk after GDS withdrawal

  The withdrawal of the Government Digital Service (GDS) from work on Universal Credit is one of the major risks for the troubled project over the next 12 months

• January 08, 2014 08 Jan'14

  DWP to spend further £90m on Universal Credit IT system

  Department for Work and Pensions to spend £90m enhancing heavily criticised Universal Credit IT system – much of which will be thrown away

• January 06, 2014 06 Jan'14

  Universal Credit IT suppliers to be left out of new digital system development

  HP, Accenture, IBM and BT will have 'significantly less' involvement in the digital system developed for full roll-out of the benefits scheme

• January 06, 2014 06 Jan'14

  Is cloud computing almost too good to be true for banks?

  The cloud’s most obvious benefits will enable banks to keep up with technology changes while reducing costs

• December 31, 2013 31 Dec'13

  CW500 Club in 2013

  Computer Weekly's CW500 Club attracts the top IT leaders in the UK to talk to their peers about the topical challenges they face

• December 09, 2013 09 Dec'13

  DWP writes off £40m on Universal Credit but insists the IT is working

  The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is scrapping £40.1m of IT work on Universal Credit, and a further £91m will be written off over five years

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  Chancellor George Osborne announces datacentre carbon tax break in Autumn Statement

  George Osborne exempts datacentre operators from blanket carbon taxes in exchange for climate change agreements

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  Government Digital Service no longer involved with Universal Credit IT development

  The Government Digital Service ends direct involvement in the development of the “enhanced IT” for the Universal Credit sheme

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  Scabal moves to the cloud for storage flexibility

  Clothing manufacturer Scabal is moving its entire IT infrastructure to Interoute’s cloud for flexibie storage

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  Where is Satyam now? Well, it’s not Satyam for a start

  Satyam, which was rescued from collapse in 2009, has plans for restoring its position as a top-tier Indian IT services provider

• November 29, 2013 29 Nov'13

  IT budgets to rise by 3% in 2014 as companies step up spending on mobile

  IT spending will increase by 3% in 2014, up from 1.8% last year. But shadow IT spending will add another 40% to technology budgets

• November 26, 2013 26 Nov'13

  IT suppliers relaxed about contract visibility

  IT and BPO suppliers Atos and Capita say they are relaxed about being more open about the often obscured details of large government contracts, as outsourcing giants are put under pressure by MPs to open up to public scrutiny

• November 26, 2013 26 Nov'13

  The state of agile software development in the UK

  Lately it is more surprising to hear that businesses are developing using a methodology other than agile, such is its widespread use

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  Shell delivers global SAP upgrade

  Shell has simplified and standardised business processes in its business focused on refining and marketing activities for oil products and chemicals, through a global SAP upgrade

• November 11, 2013 11 Nov'13

  Fear of cloud servers fading fast among UK firms

  Research shows traditionally risk-averse UK firms are being persuaded by the benefits of co-location, with more than 20% of servers now outsourced

• November 07, 2013 07 Nov'13

  'Extraordinarily poor' Universal Credit project needs clear IT stategy, say MPs

  MPs say the Department for Work and Pensions must set out a clear IT strategy for Universal Credit and state how much money will be written off

• November 04, 2013 04 Nov'13

  DWP ministers to decide whether to scrap all of the £300m Universal Credit IT

  Ministers at the DWP are to decide this month whether to scrap all of the £300m Universal Credit IT systems and start again from scratch

• November 01, 2013 01 Nov'13

  DWP refused to release Universal Credit IT review to MPs

  DWP has refused to provide MPs with a copy of a review of the IT for the troubled Universal Credit project by programme chief Howard Shiplee

• October 30, 2013 30 Oct'13

  Former Lord Justice of Appeal Hooper joins Post Office Horizon investigation

  The Post Office's Horizon accounting IT inquiry appoints former Lord Justice of Appeal Anthony Hooper to chair mediation stage

• October 28, 2013 28 Oct'13

  Six tips to help you negotiate the best deal with your datacentre provider

  Your willingness to negotiate can make a big difference to the deal you get, says Anthony Day, associate at law firm DLA Piper

• October 25, 2013 25 Oct'13

  Fulham football club address skills shortfall with cloud database

  Fulham football club’s IT team moves its database infrastructure to the cloud with a database as a service implementation

• October 16, 2013 16 Oct'13

  The UK is an attractive location for IT service providers

  The UK is an attractive location for IT services and BPO suppliers as these services mature beyond being used merely as a cost-cutting tool

• October 15, 2013 15 Oct'13

  OFT launches investigation into public sector IT supply

  The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has launched a formal study into the supply of IT products and services to the public sector

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  Home Office e-borders programme still using pilot IT system from 2004

  Home Office yet to replace sacked Raytheon with new supplier for flagship programme to help protect UK borders

• October 03, 2013 03 Oct'13

  IT outsourcing no longer main recession-busting tool

  Process optimisation and shared services have become a higher priority than IT outsourcing